About Tenerife
The Different Faces of Tenerife at Night
We’ve written before about Tenerife after dark and that to get to know a town, you have to experience what it’s like when the sun toddles off to bed. […]
Tenerife Blogs
About Tenerife
How to Have an Authentic Tenerife Experience
We were asked a question on Twitter this week that got me thinking. It was along the lines of ‘any suggestions for an authentic Tenerife experience?’ […]
About Tenerife
The Miraculous Sister María de Jesús
Lying in a sarcophagus in the Convento de Santa Catalina in La Laguna is the 284 year old body of a nun, and one day a year on the 15th February, thousands of people wait […]
About Tenerife
Lights, Camera, Action! Movies on Tenerife
Researching a short article about film locations on Tenerife revealed the Star Wars and Planet of the Apes claims were tall tales, probably spun by tour guides… […]
About Tenerife
The Most Picturesque Plazas on Tenerife
How can you easily spot the difference between a Tenerife, or any Canary Island, town which has a strong local community and one which doesn’t? By the plaza… or lack of. […]
Food & Drink
New Rules Won’t Make Guachinches Authentic
For anyone who doesn’t know what a guachinche is, here’s an explanation. We’re regular visitors to these uniquely northern Tenerife eating and drinking joints. […]
Food & Drink
A Taste of Argentina, Review of Casa Mediterranea in Puerto de la Cruz
We fancied some tapas before we toddled off to a jazz concert in Plaza Europa in Puerto de la Cruz. Time was short so we wanted somewhere close by… […]
Hotels
Seafront Location and Good Food, Review of Hotel Iberostar Anthelia in Costa Adeje
The exterior of the Anthelia is a series of connected, relatively low-rise, quasi-colonial buildings in fresh, attractive pastel colours. It’s a good looking hotel whose… […]
News
Will You Have to Pay to Visit Teide National Park?
A bit of a hornet’s nest has been stirred up after it was announced there could be some ‘charges’ introduced for visiting Teide National Park from 2016. […]
About Tenerife
Why You Shouldn’t Put Your Bag on the Ground in Spain
Earlier in the year we stopped at a café in Candelaria with my mum. Depositing our bags by our feet brought the waitress running across to scoop them up… […]